stam
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stæm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
stam (third-person singular simple present stams, present participle stamming, simple past and past participle stammed)
- (UK, dialect, obsolete, transitive) To confound.
Noun
stam
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch stam, from Middle Dutch stam, from Old Dutch *stam, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *stamniz.
Pronunciation
Noun
stam (plural stamme)
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch stam, from Old Dutch *stam, from Proto-West Germanic *stamni, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz.
Noun
stam m (plural stammen, diminutive stammetje n)
- trunk of a tree
- Synonym: boomstam
- (linguistics) stem
- tribe, clan
- Synonym: volksstam
- (biology, taxonomy) phylum
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
stam
- inflection of stammen:
Anagrams
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Adjective
stam (masculine and feminine stam, neuter stamt, definite singular and plural stamme)
Etymology 2
Noun
stam m (definite singular stammen, indefinite plural stammar, definite plural stammane)
- European chub (Squalius cephalus)
- Synonym: årbuk
References
- “stam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish staffn, stampn, from Old Norse stafn. Cognate with Danish stavn.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
stam c
- a trunk (of a tree)
- Synonym: trädstam
- trädets stam
- the trunk the of tree
- a stem (of a plant, more generally – see usage notes)
- a stem (central part from which things branch off, sometimes abstractly)
- (anatomy) a stem
- hjärnstammen
- the brain stem
- (taxonomy) a phylum
- (linguistics) a stem
- (anatomy) a stem
- a tribe
- en indianstam
- an Indian tribe
- a population (of animals, in an area (often a country))
- den svenska vargstammen
- the Swedish wolf population
Usage notes
The intuition in Swedish is the opposite of that in English, with a stam normally being a tree trunk (while also being the general word for stem). A stem of a herbaceous (non-woody) plant is a stjälk (“stalk”), and only a stam in a more technical sense.
Declension
Declension of stam | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | stam | stammen | stammar | stammarna |
Genitive | stams | stammens | stammars | stammarnas |
Derived terms
See also
References
- stam in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- stam in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- stam in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- stam in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Anagrams
West Frisian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
stam c (plural stammen, diminutive stamke)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “stam”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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